I believe in God, The Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy universal church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.

• I believe that the Bible is the inerrant voice of God, and that He moved through men to have them record exactly what He intended, no more and no less.
• I believe that God is sovereign, and that for His own glory, has unchangeably foreordained whatever comes to pass in time, especially concerning angels and men.
• I believe there is but One God, the living and true God. There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
• I believe that God predestines all destinies, not on the basis of anything within man, but rather according to His eternal and immutable purpose. Man is free to choose, but he is not free to choose not to sin. Because of the fall, he is not able to choose God without God first choosing him.
• I believe God is in control of the salvation process for all men:

1. God, before the foundation of the world, predestined some to life, according to His good and pleasing will
2. The work of God's spirit convinces us of our sin and misery, and therefore enlightens our minds in the knowledge of Christ. He persuades and enables us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offer to us in the gospel.
3. We repent of our sin, and place our faith for salvation in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
4. We are declared righteous by God and we are justified, not for anything that we do, but because of His wonderful grace.
5. We are adopted as an act of God's grace, and we have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.
6. We are sanctified by the work of God's free grace, where we are renewed continually and are able to die more and more to sin.
7. We are finally glorified with the total restoration of our spiritual and physical bodies when the sin nature will be eradicated.

• I believe that the Holy Spirit is the agent in which the Word of God is made effective in the heart of the sinner. There is an external call that we as believers do by preaching the Word and sharing our faith, and there is the internal call that is directed by the Holy Spirit.
• I believe in the perseverance of all the saints, that there is nothing we can do to lose our salvation. ONCE SAVED...ALWAYS SAVED.
• I believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin because He was fully man (born of a woman) and fully God (born without the sin nature). These two distinct natures were inseparable, without conversion, composition or confusion. Because He was fully God, Jesus could not sin. As a man He could be tempted, yet as God He could not sin.
• I believe that the Dispensational Pre-Millennium is the most satisfactory explanation of the end times...that Christ will come and rapture His church. There will then be a 7-year period of tribulation, followed by a 1000-year rule after which Christ will cast satan and his followers into the lake of fire. However, I believe that the topic of eschatology is not clear, and that the other views are defensible. It is interesting that none of the early creeds of the church ever addressed the eschatology issue. They centered on the core of the faith that is present in the early creeds.
• I believe that there are two sacraments: Communion and Baptism. The sacraments are an outward manifestation of an inward grace that Christ instituted. There is the unseen part (or seal) that is from the grace conferred by God, and the outward sign that represents the seal.
• I believe that communion is the fulfillment of the Old Testament Passover, and that it was instituted at the Passover meal...Christ our Passover is sacrificed.
• I believe that Christ is spiritually present in the elements of communion. I do not believe that it is just a memorial. I do not believe that the elements actually become the body & blood of Christ (Transubstantiation) nor that the elements contain in, under and through the body and blood of Christ (Consubstantiation).
• I believe that baptism is the New Testament equivalent of the Old Testament circumcision.
• I believe that Baptism is a sign and seal of the covenant of God and His grace working in us. There is no salvation from Baptism, but rather it signifies our entrance into God's covenant. For infants by virtue of their parent's faith and for adults by virtue of their own faith. Infants are not saved through baptism.
• I believe there is Biblical evidence for infant baptism

1. The covenant with Abraham was a spiritual covenant, and infants were circumcised.
2. The sign of the new covenant is baptism; it is therefore appropriate to baptize infants.
3. About 1/4 of New Testament baptisms were households, which presumably had children.